Sliding support and stop for drawers, &amp;c.



No. 643,682. Patented Feb. 20, I900.

' L. RAZY.

SLIDING SUPPORT AND STOP FOR DRAWERS, 8w.

(Application filed Dec. 20, 1897.)

(No Model.)

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PATENT LOUIS RAZY, OF PARIS, FRANCE.

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 643,682, dated February 20, 1900. Application filed December 20, 1897- Serial No. 662,633. (No model.)

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, LOUIS RAZY, a citizen of the Republic of France, residing at 41 Rue de la Victoire, Paris, in the Republic of France, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Sliding Supports and Stops for Drawers in Articles of Furniture, (for which I have obtained patents in Belgium, No. 130,733, dated September 20, 1897, and in Switzerland, No. 377, dated September 23, 1897;) and I do hereby declare the following to be a full, clear, and exact description of the invention, such as will enable others skilled in the art to which it appertains to make and use the same.

This invention has for its object a sliding support and stop applicable to various systems of sliding drawers, which sliding support enables the drawer to be easily drawn out into various positions and supports and stops it at its extreme position when drawn out of the article of furniture without fear of its oscillating and still permitting it to be easily separated from the'said sliding support to remove it from the article of furniture.

The sliding support may be applied to all kinds of sliding drawers made of wood,'cardboard, metal, or any other substance. It may also be applied to sliding receptacles such as wash-hand-stand basins, pin, letter, and printing type boxes, and the like-which have to be completely drawn out and even removed frequently.

- The annexed drawings show the system of support and stop constructed according to this invention and combined with various types of sliding drawers.

Figure 1 shows in perspective the arrangement of this sliding support and stop with a drawer having no front. Fig. 2 shows in side elevation and plan the said sliding support and stop removed from the article of furniture. Fig. 3 shows in vertical section an article of furniture provided with various types of sliding drawers combined with my system of sliding support and stop, the drawers being here shown in various degrees of withdrawal. The type of drawer A, provided with a door P, falling horizontally, is supposed to be entirely drawn out. It is then carried only by the sliding support S, the lateral fillets of which abut against the end of the stopped grooves. The type of drawer B, without hinged front, is supposed to be partially open, but not yet carrying with it the sliding support S. The type of drawer 0, without front, is supposed to be partially shut. It is shown just when it meets the ends of the lateral surfaces of the support and from the moment when it pushes the said support in order to return to its completely-closed posi tion. The door P, which keeps it within the article of furniture, is raised vertically in its closed position.

The bottom receiving part D of the article of furniture is shown with the sliding support and drawer removed.

In the figures the same letters indicate the same parts.

The sliding support and stop consists of two parallel cheeks a, formed by boards or plates united, for example, by dovetail joints at one of their ends by another transverse board or plate I). On the outer sides of the cheeks and over a portion of their length from the transverse plate 17 is screwed or otherwise The checks a are cut attached a fillet c. away on their upper sides and for a part of their height so as to form inclined indentations a 0.

The vertical surfaces of the article of furniture, parallel to which surfaces the drawer slides, are provided with a groove 01, which stops at d near the mouth of the drawer-reoeptacle to act as a stop to the support and to thus limit its outward travel, and consequently that of the drawer.

The internal distance between the cheeks a is equal to the external width of the drawer, so that the support incloses laterally the drawer, which it can thus follow without excessive friction in itsvarious positions.

The drawer is provided on each of its external, lateral, and vertical surfaces 6 with a horizontal attached fillet f, which slides on the edge a of the check a. It is provided at the back with a shoulder f, limited bysloping cuts f having exactly the same inclination as the sloping cuts a of the cheeks a which meet them. These cuts a and f' serve alternately to carry or stop either the support or the drawer, accordingly as the drawer is opened or closed, which will be easily understood by reference to Fig. 3.

The cheeks a may be kept apart at the free end opposite that provided with the bar I) by a thin iron plate I), placed on the lower edge of the cheeks a, or by a solid bottom running the whole or a part of the length of the cheeks.

It is understood that my sliding support and stop may be provided with pegs instead of the fillets c, and that it may be provided with two or more superposed fillets with the object of giving more supporting-surface. The drawers may be provided or not with a falling cover or door P, connected to the drawer by hinges u, or it may have no front, like the drawer (J, and be provided with a horizontal board i What I claim, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is

The combination with an article of furniture having a drawer-receiving receptacle or compartment the sides of which are provided with horizontal grooves, of a drawer-support having lateral cheeks recessed along their upper edges to form shoulders, a at opposite ends of the recesses, and having each a-horizontal bearing edge intermediate the shoulders, horizontal fillets secured to the outer faces of the cheeks of the support and slidingly arranged in the grooves of the sides of the compartment, a drawer arranged between the checks of the support, and fillets secured to the outer sides of the cheeks of the drawer, said fillets resting and adapted to slide upon the horizontal bearing edges of the cheeks of the support and being cut away at the rear ends to form shoulders having front and rear bearing edges f 'adapted to abut against the shoulders at in the manner described.

In testimony whereof I have afiixedmy signature in presence of two witnesses.

LOUIS RAZY.

Witnesses:

ALBERT MAULVAULT, EDWARD P. MACLEAN. 

